Carson McCullers Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I never thought about being famous.
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The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
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I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.
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Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.
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Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.
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Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
