From The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
All the eyes in the room watched, and in them there was hunger for truth.
From The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers The inside room was a very private place. She could be in the middle of a house full of people and still feel like she was locked up by herself.
From The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers He watches the slow agglutination of capital and power and he sees its pinnacle today. He sees America as a crazy house. He sees how much men have to rob their brothers in order to live. He sees children starving and women working sixty hours a week to get to eat. He sees a whole damn army of unemployed and billions of dollars and thousands of miles of land wasted. He sees war coming. He sees how when people suffer just so much they get mean and ugly and something dies in them. But the main thing he sees is that the whole system of the world is built on a lie.
From The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers If once he could tell it all to them, from the far-away beginning, until this very night, the telling would ease the sharp ache in his heart.
From The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers He sewed so skillfully, and the calluses on the tips of his fingers were so hard that he pushed the needle through the cloth without a thimble.
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