The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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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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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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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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