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Clock Without Hands
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"Clock Without Hands" Quotes

A man grapples with his impending death and the racial tensions of the South in the 1950s.

Quotes

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Carson McCullers

lovehatred

Sometimes the most dangerous thing of all is to have no purpose at all.

Carson McCullers

purpose

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Carson McCullers

happiness

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

Carson McCullers

companionship

There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late.

Carson McCullers

loneliness

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Carson McCullers

love

There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

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sadnesssolitude

It is the things you cannot do that make you the person you are.

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limitations

The world is mostly full of jokers and jesters, and people who are only pretending to be what they are not.

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pretense

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

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interconnectedness