Carson McCullers Quotes

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  The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.

  Carson McCullers

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  Tags in Writer, Conscious

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

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  Tags in Freedom

• Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

  Carson McCullers

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• 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.

  Carson McCullers

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• The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

  Carson McCullers

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• I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

  Carson McCullers

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  Tags in Loneliness, Made

• The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

  Carson McCullers

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  Tags in Design, Intellect

• The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

  Carson McCullers

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  Tags in Freedom, Wonderful

• There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

  Carson McCullers

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  Tags in Human, Nothing

Carson McCullers (9)

Birth:	19th February, 1917
Death:	29th September, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia. She was an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. 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 stories have been adapted to stage and film. A stagework of her novel The Member of the Wedding, which captures a young girl's feelings at her brother's wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950–51.

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