Carson McCullers - Love Quotes

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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

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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.

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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with?...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

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Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

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