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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

“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.”

Thinking Long Social Natural Racism Lonely Artificial Social Systems Southerner

Author:Carson McCullers

“The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.”

Thinking Mind Imagination Controlled Thinking Mind

Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

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

People Thinking Looks Differences Lonely

Author:Carson McCullers

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

Thinking Knows Want Real

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

“Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.”

Thinking Knows Want Real Whole Feelings Faces Felt Pieces Dinner Hungry

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.”

Thinking Past Sideways Blinders

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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