The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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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 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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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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