Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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