Frases de Carson McCullers (49 citações) | Citações e frases famosas

Variante: 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.
Fonte: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Fonte: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“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!”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”

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Carson McCullers

Fonte: The Square Root of Wonderful

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

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“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.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Fonte: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.”

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Carson McCullers

Fonte: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Fonte: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been anperson. All people belong to aexcept me. Not to belong to amakes you too lonesome.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Member of the Wedding

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“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”

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“I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.”

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Carson McCullers

“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.”

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“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

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“I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?”

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“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Member of the Wedding

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“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.”

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Carson McCullers

Fonte: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”

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Fonte: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

“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.”

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“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.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”

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Carson McCullers

Fonte: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

“The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”

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“They are the we of me.”

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Carson McCullers livro The Member of the Wedding

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