The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
CARSON MCCULLERSHis own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Next to music beer was best.
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They are the we of me.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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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 curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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