Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
CARSON MCCULLERSI have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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