“Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“The most outlandish people can be the stimulus for love...A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does… — carson mccullers Copy Share Image
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“The warring love and hatred—love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people—that left him exhausted and sick in… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?” — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“He felt as though he had swelled up to the size of a giant. The love in him made his chest a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Why was it that in cases of real love the one who is left does not more often follow the beloved by… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“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… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them . .… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
