There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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 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 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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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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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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