Carson McCullers Quotes
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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What's more American than violence?' Hayduke wanted to know. 'Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.
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I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.
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Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.
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The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.
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Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
