The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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 was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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They are the we of me.
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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 find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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