Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

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

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

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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time—the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

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There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

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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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.

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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

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That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

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You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

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

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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

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