justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
CARSON MCCULLERSYou 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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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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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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