I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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