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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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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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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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