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
taken soul feelings
But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
lying night soul
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
soul heart-is-a-lonely-hunter left-behind
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
beautiful running soul
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?
world certainty
The world is certainty a sudden place.
climbing hardest
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
taken hands sick
People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
lonely heart hunters
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
squares roots and-love
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
real details stores
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
beautiful swamps poison
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
writing doe tennessee
This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
giving quality able
Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
heart causes cold
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.