People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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They are the we of me.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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