It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
CARSON MCCULLERSI was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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 got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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