Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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 got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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.
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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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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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