Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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 run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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