The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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.
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They are the we of me.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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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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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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