The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERSTo 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!
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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