The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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Next to music beer was best.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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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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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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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