Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
CARSON MCCULLERSFor 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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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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