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.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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