But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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They are the we of me.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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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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