Carson McCullers - Clock Without Hands (1961)

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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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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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Justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

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I had 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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Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all...

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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

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

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

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