I´m a stranger in a strange land.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe are homesick most for the places we have never known.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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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.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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