Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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