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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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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a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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I've been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile justice system. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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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.
