Quotes by Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers

… and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it… the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.

Color

Hate

Race

A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Independent

Loneliness

Weather

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

Lonely

Men

Quality

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Can Do

Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Telling The Truth

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

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Truth Is

Way

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.

Jesus

Two

Years

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.

Lying

Night

Soul

Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?

Doctors

Loathe

Use

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.

Falling In Love

Love Is

Matter

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

Attitude

Hate

War

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Quotes by Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers

A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

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.

Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.

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