Carson McCullers Quotes

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

Carson McCullers

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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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• I watch a lot of football.

  

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• Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

  

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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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• By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

  

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• I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

  

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• When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

  

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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.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Justice
  • Equal
  • Delusion