But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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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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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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