We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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 Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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