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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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