You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
CARSON MCCULLERSCan you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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