I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSThey are the we of me.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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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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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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 dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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