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.
CARSON MCCULLERSWriting, for me, is a search for God.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Next to music beer was best.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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 memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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They are the we of me.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Love 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.
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