Carson McCullers Quotes

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

Carson McCullers

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• Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Neighbors
  • Solitary

• The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Successful
  • Causes
  • Fit

• A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Feels
  • Littles
  • Able

• Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Poet

• We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

  

  William Golding
  • Mad
  • Illusion
  • Confusion

• I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Never
  • Solitary
  • Weeks

• I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

  

  George Washington
  • Satisfaction
  • Solitary
  • Retired

• We used to have two album name columns for Hysteria. There wasn't much in the 'serious' column. Animal Instincts is the only one I can remember. Then there was the 'joke' column. Most of the titles in that one were takeoffs on Pyromania, like Paranoia. One of those was Hysteria. As I remember it, Rick came up with that one. He meant it as a joke, but it caught us all in a serious moment and, for some reason, it stuck. Peter Mensch liked it, Joe said, 'Well, it's alright,' and I said, 'I don't mind.' So it stuck. Nobody objected to it, anyway.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Remember
  • Joke
  • Hysteria

• The whole thing about comics is the reason I think you shoot to be a comics author is because it's a very solitary activity and that you sit down and you're arguing with yourself that's kinda the plan.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Author
  • Activity
  • Comics

• The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Reading
  • Problem
  • Advice

• ...if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

  

  Arman
  • Relationships
  • Phone
  • Solitary

• I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—and licensed it—and staled it!

  

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Wish
  • Emotion
  • Solitary

• The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Man
  • Talents
  • Solitary

• There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

  

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • Military
  • Columns
  • Baghdad

• My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Women
  • Housewife
  • Columns

• There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Wishes
  • Solitary
  • Tortured

• This will be the first time in my lifetime I'm voting for a Democrat. I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton. I've already voted.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Time

• My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Thing

• 25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
  • Problem

• The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.

  

  Beauford Delaney
  • Profound
  • Abstraction
  • Enigma

• Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. Bill Shawn knew exactly what he wanted to do.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Wanted
  • Wills

• His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Solitary
  • Columns
  • Wreckage