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.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe are homesick most for the places we have never known.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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