I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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 Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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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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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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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