Carson McCullers Quotes

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• All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new…
• Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
• The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me.…
• I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
• What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a…
• 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…
• 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…
• Writing, for me, is a search for God.
• I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
• The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
• But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon…
• Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of…
• But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
• Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
• The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.....
• You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
• The world is certainty a sudden place.
• Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
• I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.
• 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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