To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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