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Carson McCullers Quotes

Carson McCullers quotes

American Novelist February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967

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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. Carson McCullers
To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception)Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "while time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world"
while time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his..."
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "I think we look for the differences in people because it makes..."
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely. Carson McCullers
She decided to donate blood to the Red Cross; she wanted to donate a quart a week and her blood would be in the veins of Australians and Fighting French and Chinese, all over the whole world, and it would be as though she were close kin to all of these people. She could hear the army doctors saying that the blood of Frankie Addams was the reddest and the strongest blood that they had ever known. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone...."
My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener..."
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. Carson McCullers
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. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us..."
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished..... Carson McCullers
He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America. Carson McCullers
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty."
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. Carson McCullers
Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean. Carson McCullers

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