The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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