Next to music beer was best.
CARSON MCCULLERSThey are the we of me.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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