Carson McCullers Quotes
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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I actually hate shopping.
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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I draft tweets, like, 20 times.
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
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I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
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Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
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Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart of the Giver, who planned them all in love for us, and giving Him the response of love and gratitude?
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We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
