I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERSI’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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 once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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