Carson McCullers Quotes - Page 5

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• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Heart, Hunters

  Title of book (1940)

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• In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

  Carson McCullers

  Wise, Faces, Towns

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

  Carson McCullers

  Light, Sky, Listening

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Member of the Wedding”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.

  Carson McCullers

  Children, Self, Littles

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• Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

  Carson McCullers

  Jesus, Jail, Would Be

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?

  Carson McCullers

  Home, Homesick, Should

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.334, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Carson McCullers

  Pieces, Littles, Crystals

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.

  Carson McCullers

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

  Carson McCullers

  Sight, Names, People

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

  Carson McCullers

  Speak, Speak The Truth

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.

  Carson McCullers

  Sunday, Afternoon, Sunday Afternoons

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

  Carson McCullers

  Matter, No Matter What

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Passion is more important than justice.

  Carson McCullers

  Passion, Justice, Important

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

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• There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

  Carson McCullers

  Journey, Form, Outlines

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

  Carson McCullers

  Running, Time, World

  "The Mortgaged Heart".

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