The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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 seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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.
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