Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll we can do is go around telling the truth.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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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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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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