I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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