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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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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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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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
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How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.
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How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?
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If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
