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
lonely men quality
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
lonely heart hunters
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
lonely powerful self
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
telling-the-truth heart-is-a-lonely-hunter can-do
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
heart-is-a-lonely-hunter without-you meant-to-be-alone
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
lonely heart hunters
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.....
lonely thinking long
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.
lonely religious heart
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.
feelings heart-is-a-lonely-hunter cheated
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.
lonely thinking differences
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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?
lonely heart light
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!
endless round runs screaming time-and-time-management
While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
world certainty
The world is certainty a sudden place.