The world is certainty a sudden place.
CARSON MCCULLERSI have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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 xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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