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
torture
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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.
fall night firsts
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
love-is quality determined
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
children heart world
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
writing passion love-is
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
knows who-you-are
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
cat climbing tree
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
passion justice important
Passion is more important than justice.
justice yardsticks chimera
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
manhattan brooklyn brilliant
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
doctors use loathe
Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?
country home simple
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.
death gamer tricks
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.