Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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To 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!
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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 dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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