It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
CARSON MCCULLERSPeople, 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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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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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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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.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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