The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
CARSON MCCULLERSI´m a stranger in a strange land.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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They are the we of me.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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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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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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