Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
CARSON MCCULLERSI´m a stranger in a strange land.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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