I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSDon’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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