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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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