The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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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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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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