It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
CARSON MCCULLERSAs often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Next to music beer was best.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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