Carson McCullers Quotes

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

Carson McCullers

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• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

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• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
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• I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
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• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  

  Rachel True
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• If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

  

  Ed Townsend
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• Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• 'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)

  

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• And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

  

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• Once you’ve married, be strict but just with your wife, don’t allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: 'Don’t forget that I made you happy.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
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• It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

  

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• If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

  

  Patton Oswalt
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• My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

  

  Big Sean
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• I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

  

  Colin Firth
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• I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

  

  Louis Sachar
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• I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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• There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.

  

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• Yeah, I do. Roses are red, violets are blue. I wanna poke your f***ing eyes out with my dick, you f***.

  

  Charles Randall Bachman–Turner Overdrive
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• Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Humans