But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERSAfter the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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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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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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