You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
CARSON MCCULLERS- 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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERSFalling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERSHow can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
CARSON MCCULLERSI am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
CARSON MCCULLERSBut no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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.
CARSON MCCULLERSjustice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
CARSON MCCULLERSMaybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere’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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
CARSON MCCULLERSHis own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
CARSON MCCULLERSShe wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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