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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.
Carson McCullers
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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
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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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But no value has been put on human life it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
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While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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