As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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