It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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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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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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