black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Carson McCullers

Related Topics

Chair Diddling Doctor Dreadful God Hand Look Stretch Table Thing Undress Wash Window

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Children Delicate Heart Organ Small
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beautiful Either Front Look Mirror One Other Stood Time Finally
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Bang Better Could Jail See Wall
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Another Even Individual Love Nature Open Personality Poetry Relation Respond Way Write
They are the we of me.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Me They We
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Always Create Essential Keen Less Live Loneliness Made People
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERS

Desire Herat Hunter Loney Only
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?
CARSON MCCULLERS

Being Free Given Human Life Pay Put Value Without Worth
There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Children Consciousness Little Must Self Truth
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
CARSON MCCULLERS

All Around Can Do Tell Truth
All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
CARSON MCCULLERS

All Belong Except Loneliness Me People Too
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERS

God Me Search Write
Next to music beer was best.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beer Best Music Next
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Anymore Country Dare Friend Fright Most People Person Story Sunk Write Wrote
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Cold Fall First Like Night Quiet Stillness
I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Could Know Real Think Want

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes