The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
CARSON MCCULLERSA most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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