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> [“You are walking down a street and you meet somebody. Anybody. And you look at each other. And you are you. And he is him. Yet when you look at each other, the eyes make a connection. Then you go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/you-are-walking-down-a-street-and-you-meet-somebody-anybody-and-you/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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## More by Carson McCullers

> [“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/because-things-accumulate-around-your-name-said-berenice-you-have-a/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/it-was-like-she-was-cheated-only-nobody-had-cheated-her-so-there-was/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/love-is-a-joint-experience-between-two-persons-but-the-fact-that-it/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/the-thinking-mind-is-best-controlled-by-the-imagination/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/he-was-like-a-man-who-had-served-a-term-in-prison-or-had-been-to/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/comparing-the-brooklyn-that-i-know-with-manhattan-is-like-comparing-a/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [“Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/son-do-you-know-how-love-should-be-begun-the-boy-sat-small-and/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/the-most-fatal-thing-a-man-can-do-is-try-to-stand-alone/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/the-dimensions-of-a-work-of-art-are-seldom-realized-by-the-author/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/now-hoppin-john-was-f-jasmine-s-very-favorite-food-she-had-always/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/there-s-nothing-that-makes-you-so-aware-of-the-improvisation-of-human/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/maybe-when-people-longed-for-a-thing-that-bad-the-longing-made-them/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [“But the music did not come again. The tune was left broken, unfinished. And the drawn tightness she could no longer stand. She felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/but-the-music-did-not-come-again-the-tune-was-left-broken-unfinished/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [“...we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/we-must-remember-that-we-all-make-the-things-of-this-earth-of-value/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

> [I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/i-have-more-to-say-than-hemingway-and-god-knows-i-say-it-better-than/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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