Carson McCullers: Frasi in inglese
“Next to music, beer was best.”
Origine: 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.
Origine: 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?”
Origine: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”
Origine: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
Origine: The Square Root of Wonderful
“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
Origine: 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.”
Origine: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”
Origine: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”
Origine: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”
Origine: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?”
Origine: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”
Origine: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”
Origine: 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.”
Origine: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”
Origine: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter