Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERSShe 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.
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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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