I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
CARSON MCCULLERS
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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