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

    Freedom   Men   Trying  
    Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

    Lonely   Heart   Hunters  
    Title of book (1940)
  • Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

    People   Giving   Might  
    Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • All we can do is go around telling the truth.

    Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Next to music beer was best.

    Funny   Music   Drinking  
    Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

    "The Lonely Hunter" l. 24 (1896) See McCullers 1
  • We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

    Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America
  • The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

    Lonely   Heart   Hunters  
  • The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

    Lonely   Heart   Fire  
  • It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

    Country   Home   Simple  
    Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd
  • How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

    Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

    Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
  • Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

    Jesus   Jail   Would Be  
    Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.

    Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
  • Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

    Mean   Love Is   Two  
    "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)
  • I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart

    Lonely   War   Book  
  • I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

    Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

    Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America
  • 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 (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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