Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
CARSON MCCULLERS
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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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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 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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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