We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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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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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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