The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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 meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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 way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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