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I wish I was somebody else except me.
— Carson McCullers
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
— Carson McCullers
The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.
— Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
— Carson McCullers
They are the we of me.
— Carson McCullers
And now, as a summer flower shatters in September ,it was finished.
— Carson McCullers
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
— Carson McCullers
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
— Carson McCullers
The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.
— Carson McCullers
German lieder is creepy music. That's why I specialize in it.
— Carson McCullers
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
— Carson McCullers
She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth.
— Carson McCullers
Next to music, beer was best.
— Carson McCullers
Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.
— Carson McCullers
He was thinking that in nearly every person there was some special physical part kept always guarded.
— Carson McCullers
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
— Carson McCullers
In her heart it didn't give her near the same feeling that music did. Nothing was really as good as music.
— Carson McCullers
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
— Carson McCullers
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
— Carson McCullers
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
— Carson McCullers
A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness.
— Carson McCullers
The world is certainty a sudden place.
— Carson McCullers
Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content?But he went onward. — Carson McCullers
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
— Carson McCullers
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
— Carson McCullers
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
— Carson McCullers
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
— Carson McCullers
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
— Carson McCullers
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
— Carson McCullers
Mick had heard Portia say thatbefore, but she had thought it was a
tale. How could a colored man be a
doctor? — Carson McCullers
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished ...
— Carson McCullers
I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
— Carson McCullers
He could not understand the wild quiver of his heart, nor the following sense of recklessness and grace that lingered after she was gone.
— Carson McCullers
Love is the main generator of all good writing ... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
— Carson McCullers
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
— Carson McCullers
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
— Carson McCullers
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
— Carson McCullers
I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.
— Carson McCullers
Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.
— Carson McCullers
What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.
— Carson McCullers
Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all ...
— Carson McCullers
In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.
— Carson McCullers
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
— Carson McCullers
The way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
— Carson McCullers
The warring love and hatredlove for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people
that left him exhausted and sick in spirit. — Carson McCullers
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
— Carson McCullers
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.
— Carson McCullers
He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America.
— Carson McCullers
The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement.
— Carson McCullers
Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
— Carson McCullers
Were trying to dig up the roots of that big oak stump near the
— Carson McCullers
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
— Carson McCullers
There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so that she felt sick.
— Carson McCullers
The world that jibes your tenderness / Jails your lust.
— Carson McCullers
He nearly always put his hand on his friend's arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him.
— Carson McCullers
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
— Carson McCullers
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
— Carson McCullers
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
— Carson McCullers
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
— Carson McCullers
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
— Carson McCullers
With her it was like there was two places - the inside room and the outside room.
— Carson McCullers
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
— Carson McCullers
Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?
— Carson McCullers
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
— Carson McCullers
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
— Carson McCullers
Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.
— Carson McCullers
While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world
— Carson McCullers
There was none of the quiet insolence about this man.
— Carson McCullers
Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.
— Carson McCullers
It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.
— Carson McCullers
Justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
— Carson McCullers
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
— Carson McCullers
I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
— Carson McCullers
But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
— Carson McCullers
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
— Carson McCullers
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
— Carson McCullers
Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
— Carson McCullers
The love she felt was so hard that she had to squeeze him to her until her arms were tired.
— Carson McCullers
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.
— Carson McCullers
Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
— Carson McCullers
Passion is more important than justice.
— Carson McCullers
Frances wanted the whole world to die.
— Carson McCullers
They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?
— Carson McCullers
Jake had begun to carry chalk in his pockets, also. He wrote brief sentences. He tried to word them so that a man would think.
— Carson McCullers
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
— Carson McCullers
You mind Ralph," she called back to Bubber. "Mind the gnats don't sit on his eyelids.
— Carson McCullers
Then when he had washed the ashtray and the glass he brought out a pistol from his pocket and put a bullet in his chest.
— Carson McCullers
A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.
— Carson McCullers
It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her.
— Carson McCullers
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.
— Carson McCullers
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
— Carson McCullers
She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town.
— Carson McCullers
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
— Carson McCullers
When a person knows and can'tmake the others understand, what does he do? — Carson McCullers
