Carson McCullers Short Quotes

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Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all...

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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

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Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way.

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That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

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But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?

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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

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There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

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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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If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.

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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

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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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Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

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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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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

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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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And his heart balanced between pity and the natural instinct for separation that divides the sound from the infirm.

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The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

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