Carson McCullers Quotes
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In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.
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God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
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So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
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...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
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They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.
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Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
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You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.