Carson McCullers Quotes
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made relationships that will never end.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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I believe divinity is within us.
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Whoever carried out this abuse must be caught and brought to justice, regardless of rank or background.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.
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Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
