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.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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