Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again."
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"The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person who had been somewhere that other people are not likely to go or had done something that others are not apt to do."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. Descent into the depths until at last there was no further chasm below. He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"There was another thing bigger than the tiredness – and this was the strong crew purpose."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"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, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"Because in some men, it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons - throw it to some human being or some human idea."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear"
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them."
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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