A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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