The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
CARSON MCCULLERSThey are the we of me.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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 the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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