Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
CARSON MCCULLERSI 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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 people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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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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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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