Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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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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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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