Carson McCullers Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Carson McCullers

  Song, Book, Addresses

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

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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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• 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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• But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

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  Children, Heart, Twists

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

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  Past, Thinking, Sideways

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.125, 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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• Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

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  Giving, Quality, Owing

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Writing

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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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• The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

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  Pain, Hate, Forever

  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

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• Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

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  Climbing, Hardest

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.36, 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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• The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

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  Memories, Night, Light

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

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  Heart, Causes, Cold

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.271, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Feelings, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Cheated

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. 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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  Lonely, Religious, Heart

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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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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  Cutting, Doctors, Feelings

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.59, 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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• 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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  Fall, People, House

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

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  Atheist, Heart, Afternoon

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Loneliness, Writing, Aquariums

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.302, Library of America

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