The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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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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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.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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