# The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

- Author: [Carson McCullers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers.md)
- Quotes: 15
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter

## Quotes

> Next to music beer was best.

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> Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

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> "I'm one who knows. I'm a stranger in a strange land."

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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 full of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

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> "The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear."

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> 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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> In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise.

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> The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

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

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> "I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"

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> "Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean."

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> "All we can do is go around telling the truth."

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> "It is far better for the profits of our purse to be taken from us than to be robbed of the riches of our minds and souls."

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

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