Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
CARSON MCCULLERSHow can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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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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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.
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