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 MCCULLERSAs often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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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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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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