I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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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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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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 writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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