To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
CARSON MCCULLERSWherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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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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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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