All we can do is go around telling the truth.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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 was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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 writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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