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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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They are the we of me.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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