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.
CARSON MCCULLERSDon’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Next to music beer was best.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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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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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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