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Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

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Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

Source: Look Homeward, Americans, in Vogue, 1 Dec 1940.
-- Carson McCullers, (Feb 19 1917-1967), US novelist, short-story writer; Her novels and stories that depict the inner lives of lonely people, e.g., The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1940.


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