The writer must hew the phantom rock.
CARSON MCCULLERSDon’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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 the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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 mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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