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.
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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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