Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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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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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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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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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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