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.
CARSON MCCULLERSComparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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 live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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