Carson McCullers Quotes
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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My No. 1 dream match is Brock Lesnar. And I want that to be a WrestleMania match. I don't know if the WWE will ever let that happen, because they might be afraid he might legitimately hurt me pretty bad.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
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Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness.
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Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.
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Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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I'm a real hoarder.
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In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.
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I am very flattered that so many people loved 'Chasing Dreams.'
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I think God is perfect, all-powerful and has an unstoppable plan for everyone, including those who love him and those who don't.
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Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
