While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world. Carson McCullers More Quotes by Carson McCullers More Quotes From Carson McCullers Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns. Carson McCullers herogivingmen People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable. Carson McCullers takenhandspeople But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things. Carson McCullers hurtheartchildren Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing. Carson McCullers climbinghardest You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real. Carson McCullers storesdetailsreal In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot. Carson McCullers fightinghandspeople Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together. Carson McCullers passionwritinglove-is But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. Carson McCullers twistsheartchildren Passion is more important than justice. Carson McCullers passionimportantjustice justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation. Carson McCullers chimerayardsticksjustice Listen,” F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I can’t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange? Carson McCullers togethertryingyears But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music. Carson McCullers no-matter-whatmatter 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 brooklynmanhattanbrilliant Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all. Carson McCullers sunday-afternoonsafternoonsunday Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to. Carson McCullers giving-upmenideas The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness. Carson McCullers lightnightmemories And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many. Carson McCullers truth-issecretway That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended. Carson McCullers speak-the-truthspeak There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form. Carson McCullers outlinesformjourney 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 knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this. Carson McCullers miracleunderstandingfacts
