The 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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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They are the we of me.
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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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