The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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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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