The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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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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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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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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