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 MCCULLERSWe 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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They are the we of me.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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