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Carson McCullers Quotes

Carson McCullers quotes about mind

American Novelist February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967

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And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had heard last autumn. The symphony stayed inside her always and grew little by little. The reason was this: the whole symphony was in her mind. It had to be. She had heard every note, and somewhere in the back of her mind the whole of the music was still there just as it had been played. But she could do nothing to bring it all out again. Except wait and be ready for the times when... Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination."
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination. Carson McCullers
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a 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 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
Carson McCullers quote: "You mind Ralph," she called back to Bubber. "Mind the gnats..."
You mind Ralph," she called back to Bubber. "Mind the gnats don't sit on his eyelids. Carson McCullers

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