I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERSComparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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They are the we of me.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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