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.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe are homesick most for the places we have never known.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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?
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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