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.
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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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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