When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERSWe no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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