The world is certainty a sudden place.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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 beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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They are the we of me.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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