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 MCCULLERSThere are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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They are the we of me.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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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 curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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