We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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