Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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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!
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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.
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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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