To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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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 closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Next to music beer was best.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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