We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
CARSON MCCULLERSI see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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