“me parece que este es un Morris Finestein de primera.”
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
Carson McCullers, née Lula Carson Smith le 19 février 1917 à Columbus en Géorgie et morte le 29 septembre 1967 à Nyack dans l'État de New York, est une romancière américaine.
Romancière et nouvelliste de premier plan, elle est la fille aînée de Marguerite Waters Smith et Lamar Smith.
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“me parece que este es un Morris Finestein de primera.”
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“Next to music, beer was best.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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.
Source: 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?”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
Source: The Square Root of Wonderful
“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
Source: 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.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter