We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. Carson McCullers More Quotes by Carson McCullers More Quotes From Carson McCullers Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself? Carson McCullers loathe doctors use I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands. Carson McCullers meant-to-be-alone heart-is-a-lonely-hunter without-you There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall. Carson McCullers night fall firsts 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. Carson McCullers struggle dream art The writer must hew the phantom rock. Carson McCullers phantoms rocks writing 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 real want thinking 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 lonely religious heart The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them. Carson McCullers struggle goes-on ideas 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 fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house. Carson McCullers house people fall Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. Carson McCullers resentment poverty flower It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. Carson McCullers cold causes heart 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 endless-time struggle love There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to. Carson McCullers self littles children Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. Carson McCullers jail would-be jesus We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat. Carson McCullers men country children 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 mirrors beautiful long All we can do is go around telling the truth. Carson McCullers heart-is-a-lonely-hunter telling-the-truth can-do Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair. Carson McCullers doctors half hands But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. Carson McCullers two years jesus 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 hero giving men
