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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe world is certainty a sudden place.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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They are the we of me.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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