Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
CARSON MCCULLERSFalling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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 thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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