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The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Carson McCullers

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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
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Lula Carson Smith
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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 flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
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For 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.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
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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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