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.
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 closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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