Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
CARSON MCCULLERSI 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?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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