Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
CARSON MCCULLERSWriting, for me, is a search for God.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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