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We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Carson McCullers
Country, Children, Men
Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Carson McCullers
Country, Two, Different
"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. 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.

Carson McCullers
Country, Home, Simple
Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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