If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
CARSON MCCULLERSMaybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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