It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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 memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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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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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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