I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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They are the we of me.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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