The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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Carson McCullers125 quotes“The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?”
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Carson McCullersCarson McCullers 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.
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Carson McCullersCarson McCullers The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers 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?
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Carson McCullersCarson McCullers When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers 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 McCullersCarson McCullers The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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