It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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