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Inspirational Quotes by Carson McCullers
- Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
- I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
- Writing, for me, is a search for God.
- The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
- 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.
- The writer must hew the phantom rock.
- They are the we of me.
- The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
- But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
- All we can do is go around telling the truth.
- I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she…
- The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
- We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
- Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
- It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she…
- When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
- Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
- There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
- I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
- It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
- I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento