The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
CARSON MCCULLERSFalling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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Next to music beer was best.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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