I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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 people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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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 writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Next to music beer was best.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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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