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.
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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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 writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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After 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.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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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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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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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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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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