The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
CARSON MCCULLERSI live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Sometimes 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.
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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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They are the we of me.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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