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Film writer

Carson McCullers was an American author known for her unique literary style and profound insights into human nature. Her works, often set in the American South, explored themes such as loneliness, love, and identity.

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Famous Carson McCullers Quotes

“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.”

People Kind Persons Fall House Loud Crowded Lonesome

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.”

Persons Beautiful Objects Poison Mediocre Extravagant Swamps

Book:The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Collected Short Stories

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Collected Short Stories

“Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.”

People Mean Persons Doe Two Facts Love Is Involved Joints Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Author:Carson McCullers

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

Knows Persons Doe

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.”

People Thinking Humans Persons Made Different Seems Eye Felt Heard His Eyes

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”

People Persons Long Trouble Long Time Lonesome

Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“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.”

Knows Heart Persons Hard Enough Lost Havens Like You Beats Tough Atheist Satisfied Excitement Afternoon Ruined Going To Work Lost You

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

About the Author

Born: February 19, 1917
Died: September 29, 1967
Known for: Film writer
Quotes: 152

Books & Sources

The Heart Is a Lonely HunterRelated source material

Collected Stories of Carson McCullersRelated source material

Clock Without HandsRelated source material

The Mortgaged Heart: Selected WritingsRelated source material

Reflections in a Golden EyeRelated source material

The Ballad of the Sad CafeRelated source material

Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other WritingsRelated source material

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other StoriesRelated source material

The Member of the WeddingRelated source material

Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullersRelated source material

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