I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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They are the we of me.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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