Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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