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Quote by Carson McCullers

“While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.”

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Carson McCullers was an American author known for her unique literary style and profound insights into human nature. Her works, often set in the American South, explored themes such as loneliness, love, and identity. more

“Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.”

Made Forget Known Our Lives Dog Draws Crosses Borders Genetics Collages Forget Everything

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”

Ifs Beautiful Joy Morning Quiet Valuable Golden Weed Leafs Jewels Sunny Dew Bustle

Book:Tortilla Flat

Source: Tortilla Flat

“And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.”

Knows Needs Feels Heart I Can Happens Turns Brain My Friends Need Love Prozac Nonverbal Prozac Nation

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.”

People Knows Way Writing War Ends Stories Courses Memories Special Sorrow Mountain Rivers Crosses Spread Dawn March Sunlight War Stories

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.”

People Doe Facts Difficult Dangerous Truth Is Deny Factual

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.”

Ifs Want Play Audience

Author:Albert Brooks

“For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.”

Ifs Men Humor Half Food Hunger Bread Bitter Indifference Eating Bread Baking Bread

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”

Years Hands Night Dies Stars Born Hours Millions Sun Forever Week Sky Minutes Months Moon Rain Empty Notes Clouds Circles Scales Snow Clock Fades Swings Reborn Second Hand Sun Rise Revolving Rain And Snow

Book:Prelude

Source: Prelude

“For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.”

Eternal Scripture Unseen Bible Verse Seen And Unseen Unseen Things

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

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