Carson McCullers Quotes
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
Carson McCullers
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
Lance Ito
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
F. Sionil Jose
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.
Ian Gomez
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos
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The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.
Leonardo da Vinci
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One winter night, at half past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine
Lewis Carroll
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo Philips
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As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
Mark Rutte
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Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
Kathy Bates
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I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
Ellen Burstyn
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To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
Ameen Rihani
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There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
David Mitchell
