Today is the birthday of Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967), author. She is best known for her first novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter."Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable."
— Carson McCullers
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
— Carson McCullers
"We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong."
— Carson McCullers
"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"
— Carson McCullers
"The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else."
— Carson McCullers
"The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination."
— Carson McCullers
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