The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
CARSON MCCULLERSMaybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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They are the we of me.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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