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.
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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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