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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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  Real, Thinking, Want

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?

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  Beautiful, Running, Soul

  Carson McCullers (1964). “The ballad of the sad café”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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