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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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 trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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