The writer must hew the phantom rock.
CARSON MCCULLERSComing down was the hardest part of any climbing.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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 with only one desire!
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The 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.
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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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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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