I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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