Quote by Carson McCullers Download Open image ““There was none of the quiet insolence about this man.”” — Carson McCullers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“a masterly performance. Fulsome and vapid, laden with insincere warmth and hidden barbs, his introductory speech had nevertheless left no legitimate grounds for complaint.” — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
“He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him,… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“For us, silence is all we have ever known. I do not speak because I do not know what to say. He does not… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“I was glad he didn’t try to come up with something encouraging to say. Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of… — Mia Sheridan 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
