The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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