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Her genius for prose remains one of the few satisfying achievements of our second-rate culture.
Gore Vidal on Carson McCullers
I asked my husband if he’d ever read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and then he asked if I’d read it, and we realized that neither of us had. BUT we both watched that movie with ScarJo reading it while John Travolta sort of drunkenly hits on her/hints that he’s her dad. So there’s that.