I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSFor you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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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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