The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
CARSON MCCULLERSJesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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