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.
CARSON MCCULLERSDoctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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