The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERSI see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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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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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.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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