Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe are homesick most for the places we have never known.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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