I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERSThey are the we of me.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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 seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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