Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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