When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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