Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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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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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.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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