The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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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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