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Carson McCullers Quote: “I go all around and try to tell them. And they laugh. I can’t make them understand anything. No matter what I say I can’t seem to make them see the truth.”

151. “I go all around and try to tell them. And they laugh. I can’t make them understand anything. No matter what I say I can’t seem to make them see the truth.”

— Carson McCullers

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

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

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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.”

153. “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: “Because things accumulate around your name,” said Berenice. “You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can’t jump out of your name and escape like that. And if it is good and you have a good reputation, then you should be content and satisfied.”

154. “Because things accumulate around your name,” said Berenice. “You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can’t jump out of your name and escape like that. And if it is good and you have a good reputation, then you should be content and satisfied.”

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Carson McCullers Quote: “How can the dead be truly dead when they are still walking in my heart?”

155. “How can the dead be truly dead when they are still walking in my heart?”

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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.”

156. “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.”

— Carson McCullers

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.”

157. “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.”

— Carson McCullers

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.”

158. “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: “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.”

159. “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.”

— Carson McCullers

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

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

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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.”

161. “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.”

— Carson McCullers

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.”

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

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

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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.”

164. “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.”

— Carson McCullers

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

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

— Carson McCullers

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