There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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?
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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