The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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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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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.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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