I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
CARSON MCCULLERSIn his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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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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