The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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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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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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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 memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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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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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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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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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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