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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Carson McCullers
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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
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Lula Carson Smith
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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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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Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
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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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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
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