There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
CARSON MCCULLERSJesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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