The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
CARSON MCCULLERSSometimes 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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