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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Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'
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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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It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and "Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now," and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument.
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
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To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.
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Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
