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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

Carson McCullers

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
CARSON MCCULLERS

All Country Loneliest Lonely Men Seem Sometimes
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Beautiful Extravagant Love Most Object Person Poison Seldom Wild
Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Being Card Declare Evening Human Library Manage Over Pass Suffer Table Thing
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Better Country God Hemingway Know More People Person
This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Arm Around Hard Leg Music Salt She Very
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Determine Himself Love Lover Quality Solely Value
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Cheat Like Nobody Out Same Feel She Take
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Essential Fall Love Matter Stand Thing World
You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
CARSON MCCULLERS

All Around Bust Day Enough Excitement Loose Lost Peace Ruin Some Something Traipse Work
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Chair Diddling Doctor Dreadful God Hand Look Stretch Table Thing Undress Wash Window
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Home Honor Periodically Renew Sense
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Children Delicate Heart Organ Small
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Amidst Fragile Life Own Seem Support Wreckage Year
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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Adult Bad Cut Diet Doctor Either Feel Gone Instinctively Just Meant
They are the we of me.
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Me They We
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Bourbon Drink First Master Morning Musical Nothing Pour Sound Sunday

The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

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