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• There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

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  Song, Book, Addresses

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

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  God Knows, Knows

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• justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

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  Justice, Yardsticks, Chimera

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

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  Freedom, Men, Trying

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

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  Flower, Poverty, Resentment

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

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  Love, Courage, Humility

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

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  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

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  Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Without You, Meant To Be Alone

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

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  Passion, Writing, Love Is

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

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  Caring, Care, Closest

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.310, Library of America

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• The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

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  Long, People, Trouble

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.260, HMH

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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. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

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  Stupid, Wine, Mean

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

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  Beautiful, Poison, Swamps

  Carson McCullers (1955). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Collected Short Stories”

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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. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

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  Falling In Love, Men, Clouds

  Carson McCullers (2012). “The Ballad of the Sad Café”, p.133, Penguin UK

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• the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

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  Loneliness, Needs, Way

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

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  Manhattan, Brooklyn, Brilliant

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.

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  Taken, Soul, Feelings

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I´m a stranger in a strange land.

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  Land, Strange, Stranger

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I 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?

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  Tree, Perception, Green

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. 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? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

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  Country, Children, Men

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

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  Philosophy, Color, Medicine

  Carson McCullers (2015). “Reflections in a Golden Eye”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Years, Wreckage, Columns

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Writing, for me, is a search for God.

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  Writing

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• The writer must hew the phantom rock.

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  Writing, Rocks, Phantoms

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

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  Lonely, Thinking, Differences

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