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.
CARSON MCCULLERSNext to music beer was best.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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.
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