And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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 Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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