Carson McCullers Quotes About Giving
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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.
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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.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.
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