Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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