The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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 most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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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 writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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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 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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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