Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
CARSON MCCULLERSthe way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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