justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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