To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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 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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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