Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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