This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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They are the we of me.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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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 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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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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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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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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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