For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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.
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