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Carson McCullers Quotes

Carson McCullers Quotes.

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
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
Carson McCullers
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
Carson McCullers
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
Carson McCullers
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
Carson McCullers
I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
Carson McCullers
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
Carson McCullers
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
Carson McCullers
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
Carson McCullers
I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
Carson McCullers
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
Carson McCullers
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
Carson McCullers
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
Carson McCullers
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 experience to the two people involved.
Carson McCullers
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 those masters.
Carson McCullers
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Carson McCullers
The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
Carson McCullers
IВґm a stranger in a strange land.
Carson McCullers
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
Carson McCullers
I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
Carson McCullers