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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?

Carson McCullers

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
CARSON MCCULLERS

Agree Also Call Colour Green Same See Tree
The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beat Enough Hurt Listen Rabbit Symphony Terrible Whole World
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beautiful Either Front Look Mirror One Other Stood Time Finally
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Cheat Like Nobody Out Same Feel She Take
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Bang Better Could Jail See Wall
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beloved Come Country Different Lover
There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Children Consciousness Little Must Self Truth
I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Could Know Real Think Want
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Always Cat Climb Tree Wrong
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Brilliant Comfortable Company Compare Complacent Country Duenna Neurotic People Person Sister
The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Answer Bewilder Emotional Hate Incertain Incertitude Only Racial Soul Understand
Next to music beer was best.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beer Best Music Next
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Candy Color Crystal Ever Fellow Imagine Little Music Other Piece Saddest Soft Sometimes Thing Time
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Being Care Close Else Someone Thing
Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Basket Bottle Corruption Fruit Grape Look Loss Meanness Product Profit Room Wine
But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Church Done Him Jesus Look Made Thousand Two What Year

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