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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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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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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One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
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When I was 5 years old, I wanted to be a WWE superstar.
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
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While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
