There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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