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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
Carson McCullers
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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Doctors, by God washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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