Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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