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Carson McCullers Quote: “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 off one way. And he goes off another way. You go off into different parts of town, and maybe you never see each other again. Not in your whole life.”

151. “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 off one way. And he goes off another way. You go off into different parts of town, and maybe you never see each other again. Not in your whole life.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “Henry Johnson was the third husband, the one who had gone crazy on Berenice. He was all right for three.”

152. “Henry Johnson was the third husband, the one who had gone crazy on Berenice. He was all right for three.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “The whole world was this music and she could not listen hard enough.”

153. “The whole world was this music and she could not listen hard enough.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “It wasn’t like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.”

154. “It wasn’t like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale, trapped moths in his sockets.”

155. “He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale, trapped moths in his sockets.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “In the beginning of dog days Frankie’s cat had gone away. And the season of dog days is like this: it is the time at the end of the summer when as a rule nothing can happen – but if a change does come about, that change remains until dog days are over. Things that are done are not undone and a mistake once made is not corrected.”

156. “In the beginning of dog days Frankie’s cat had gone away. And the season of dog days is like this: it is the time at the end of the summer when as a rule nothing can happen – but if a change does come about, that change remains until dog days are over. Things that are done are not undone and a mistake once made is not corrected.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “You see, it’s like I’m two people. One of me is an educated man. I been in some of the biggest libraries in the country. I read. I read all the time. I read books that tell the pure honest truth. Over there in my suitcase I have books by Karl Marx and Thorstein Veblen and such writers as them. I read them over and over, and the more I study the madder I get.”

157. “You see, it’s like I’m two people. One of me is an educated man. I been in some of the biggest libraries in the country. I read. I read all the time. I read books that tell the pure honest truth. Over there in my suitcase I have books by Karl Marx and Thorstein Veblen and such writers as them. I read them over and over, and the more I study the madder I get.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “Soms, als ze in het bleke schemerdonker over straat slenterde met de bitterzoete geur van stof en bloemen – lenteavonden met verlichte ramen en de langgerekte kreten voor het avondeten, wanneer de huiszwaluwen zich buitelend boven de stad verzamelden en samen naar hun nesten vlogen en de lucht leeg en wijd achterlieten – in die lange lenteschemer welde er een soort weemoed in haar op en verstarde haar hart, stokte bijna.”

158. “Soms, als ze in het bleke schemerdonker over straat slenterde met de bitterzoete geur van stof en bloemen – lenteavonden met verlichte ramen en de langgerekte kreten voor het avondeten, wanneer de huiszwaluwen zich buitelend boven de stad verzamelden en samen naar hun nesten vlogen en de lucht leeg en wijd achterlieten – in die lange lenteschemer welde er een soort weemoed in haar op en verstarde haar hart, stokte bijna.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have nothing to do with time going by at all.”

159. “This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have nothing to do with time going by at all.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “She would invent little tiny radios the size of a green pea that people could carry around and stick in their ears.”

160. “She would invent little tiny radios the size of a green pea that people could carry around and stick in their ears.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “She stood in the corner of the bride’s room, wanting to say: I love the two of you so much and you are the we of me. Please take me with you from the wedding, for we belong to be together.”

161. “She stood in the corner of the bride’s room, wanting to say: I love the two of you so much and you are the we of me. Please take me with you from the wedding, for we belong to be together.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “She hated herself, and had become a loafer and a big no-good who hung around the summer kitchen: dirty and greedy and mean and sad.”

162. “She hated herself, and had become a loafer and a big no-good who hung around the summer kitchen: dirty and greedy and mean and sad.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “She was afraid because in the war they would not include her, and because the world seemed somehow separate from herself.”

163. “She was afraid because in the war they would not include her, and because the world seemed somehow separate from herself.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “If a person admires you a lot you despise him and you don’t care – and it is the person who doesn’t notice you that are apt to admire.”

164. “If a person admires you a lot you despise him and you don’t care – and it is the person who doesn’t notice you that are apt to admire.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “Always he wanted to set her up to something, to give to her. And not only a sundae or some sweet to eat – but something real. That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff’s mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.”

165. “Always he wanted to set her up to something, to give to her. And not only a sundae or some sweet to eat – but something real. That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff’s mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.”

— Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers Quote: “A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness.”

166. “A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “Hay ocasiones en que la mayor necesidad de un hombre es tener a quien amar, un punto en el que centrar sus emociones difusas.”

167. “Hay ocasiones en que la mayor necesidad de un hombre es tener a quien amar, un punto en el que centrar sus emociones difusas.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “There is something about a dark cold night that makes you feel close to someone you’re sleeping with. When you talk together it is like you are the only people awake in the town.”

168. “There is something about a dark cold night that makes you feel close to someone you’re sleeping with. When you talk together it is like you are the only people awake in the town.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “And in answer the words trembled on his lips – the words which are surely the root of all human grief – so that he almost said aloud : ‘Almighty Host! Utmost power of the universe! I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which I ought to have done. So this cannot truly be the end.”

169. “And in answer the words trembled on his lips – the words which are surely the root of all human grief – so that he almost said aloud : ‘Almighty Host! Utmost power of the universe! I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which I ought to have done. So this cannot truly be the end.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “But remembering don’t come to a man face forward – it corners around sideways.”

170. “But remembering don’t come to a man face forward – it corners around sideways.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.”

171. “Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.”

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