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.
CARSON MCCULLERSFalling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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