Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSYou don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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 seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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