Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
CARSON MCCULLERSA 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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They are the we of me.
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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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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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