I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer must hew the phantom rock.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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 curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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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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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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