You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
CARSON MCCULLERSWriting, for me, is a search for God.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Next to music beer was best.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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