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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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They are the we of me.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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