This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
CARSON MCCULLERSResentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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 value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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