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.
CARSON MCCULLERSAs often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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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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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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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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