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Carson McCullers Quotes

1917–1967 United States

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The kid Mick picked at the front of her blouse to keep the cloth from rubbing the new, tender nipples beginning to come out on her breast.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.

The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

"The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

"All we can do is go around telling the truth."

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

And how can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

"I'm one who knows. I'm a stranger in a strange land."

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

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

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

"The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear."

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

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.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

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.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

I want—I want—I want—was all that she could think about—but just what this real want was she did not know.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in the doorways, and she was afraid.

The Member of the Wedding (1946)

"It is far better for the profits of our purse to be taken from us than to be robbed of the riches of our minds and souls."

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

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 full of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carson McCullers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.