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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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• The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

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  Love Is, Quality, Determined

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.234, 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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• Next to music beer was best.

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  Funny, Music, Drinking

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.353, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  People, Giving, Might

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, 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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• There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

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  Country, Two, Different

  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

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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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• After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

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  Lonely, Powerful, Self

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

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• We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

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  Loneliness, Heart, Waiting

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

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  Hurt, Real, Heart

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• 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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  Struggle, Ideas, Goes On

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Beautiful, Mirrors, Long

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.

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  Writing, Feelings, Different

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• ... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.

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  Hate, Race, Color

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

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  People, Darkness, Tomorrow

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

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  Writing, Doe, Tennessee

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

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• Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

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  Doctors, Use, Loathe

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. 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. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.

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  Lying, Night, Soul

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

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  Torture

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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