Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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