And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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