Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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 most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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 value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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 must hew the phantom rock.
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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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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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