All we can do is go around telling the truth.
CARSON MCCULLERSA 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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 Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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