I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERSOnce you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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