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

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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Georgia
Lula Carson Smith
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Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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