Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Next to music beer was best.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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