Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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