I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERSI have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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 writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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They are the we of me.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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