Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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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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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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