You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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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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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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