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 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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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 seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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