The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer must hew the phantom rock.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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