I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERSI got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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 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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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