Carson McCullers Quotes about Home

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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

Carson McCullers

Home, Horror

Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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