All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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