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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI´m a stranger in a strange land.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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