I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer must hew the phantom rock.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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