Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe world is certainty a sudden place.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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You 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.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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 closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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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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