Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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 writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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