Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullerswas an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 February 1917
CityColumbus, GA
CountryUnited States of America
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
freedom men trying
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
hurt heart numbness
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
passion justice important
Passion is more important than justice.
children heart world
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
sunday afternoon sunday-afternoons
Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all ...
doctors use loathe
Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?
pain hate forever
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.
knows who-you-are
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
death gamer tricks
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
dream art struggle
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.
memories night light
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.
long people trouble
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.
writing passion love-is
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.