It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
CARSON MCCULLERS
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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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