Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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 thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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