The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
-
-
I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERS -
Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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?
CARSON MCCULLERS -
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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?
CARSON MCCULLERS -
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
I´m a stranger in a strange land.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
CARSON MCCULLERS






