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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I 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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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