I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
CARSON MCCULLERSPeople, 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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