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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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They are the we of me.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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She 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.
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