Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
“Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. — Carson McCullers Copy Share
“Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them . .… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
“But the music did not come again. The tune was left broken, unfinished. And the drawn tightness she could no longer stand. She felt… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
“...we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.” — Carson McCullers Copy Share
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner. — Carson McCullers Copy Share
