Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERSI got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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