Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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They are the we of me.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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 bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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