Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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 world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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They are the we of me.
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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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