Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
CARSON MCCULLERSOwing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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