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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.

Carson McCullers

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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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