The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
CARSON MCCULLERSI must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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