And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
CARSON MCCULLERSDoctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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