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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
Carson McCullers
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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Screenwriter
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Columbus
Georgia
Lula Carson Smith
Carson McCullers
Poverty
Resentment
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Flower
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand 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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There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
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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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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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But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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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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There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
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Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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