It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
CARSON MCCULLERSMaybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
-
-
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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!
CARSON MCCULLERS -
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
CARSON MCCULLERS