In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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 world is certainty a sudden place.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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They are the we of me.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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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.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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