Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
CARSON MCCULLERSI was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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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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