We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
CARSON MCCULLERSHis own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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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.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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