“The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.” — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“A person's got to fight for every single thing they get,' she said slowly. 'And I've noticed a lot of times that… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I know, but what is it all about? People loose and at the same time caught. Caught and loose. All these people… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“It was a small of her back and her face that got so tired. Their (her retail employer's) mono was supposed to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“That was the way things were. It was like she was mad all the time. Not how a kid gets mad quick… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time. Woolworth's… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“You think out everything in your brain. While us rather talk from something in our hearts that has been there for a… — 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
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
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Why was it that in cases of real love the one who is left does not more often follow the beloved by… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and of valour. Of the endless fluid passage… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Then at last the opening music came again, with all the different instruments bunched together for each note like a hard, tight… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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
