Carson McCullers Quotes
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
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The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
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We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
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I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.
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Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
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Part of brand management is what you don't do, not what you do.
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Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack Kerouac or Oscar Wilde, years before I really understood them.
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Generally I'm against regulation.
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I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.
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Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
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The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
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I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.
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I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.
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Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.
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When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.
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It is a very pretty flag. … I wish I could have a piece of it. I know! If it's so important, I think we should all have a piece of it. Don't you? … Now we should decide - who should be allowed to cut the first piece off!
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Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
