Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers

19-Feb-1917


United States


Novelist

Born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, Carson McCuller achieved her first critical success and commercialized her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. During WWII, the McCullers lived in France House, the Brooklyn artist's home, where words such as W.H. Integrated, contradictory and structured functions are studied. Despite coming from Southern Gothic culture, McCullers wrote all the fiction after leaving the South. She died in Nyack, New York, at the age of 50.

QUOTES BY Carson McCullers


"Next to music, beer was best."

"We are homesick most for the places we have never known."

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

"We are torn between 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."

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

"The way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear."

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

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

"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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