His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
CARSON MCCULLERS
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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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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