Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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