Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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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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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 memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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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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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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