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!
CARSON MCCULLERSBut 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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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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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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