Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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 xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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