I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Next to music beer was best.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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