Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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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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They are the we of me.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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