Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
CARSON MCCULLERSI have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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They are the we of me.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Next to music beer was best.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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