A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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 bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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