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.
CARSON MCCULLERSOwing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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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 Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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