There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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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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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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Maybe 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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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