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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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They are the we of me.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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 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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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