"I've had empathy toward what Carson McCullers calls "the invisible people" all my life and was inherently interested in what redeemed Mancil Travis, what fueled Mancil, what destroyed Mancil, etc. I think everyone wants redemption including Mancil."

-- Will Kimbrough

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!”
“because wherever I satâ€”on the deck of a ship or at a street cafÃ© in Paris or Bangkokâ€”I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
“In summary, our world is doomed.”

Source : "Screenwipe", Season 4, Episode 4, October 16, 2007.
“The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own image”
“The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.”
“Iâ€™m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. Itâ€™s not to do with vocabulary or meanings, because I know quite a lot of words, but when I come out with them they get confused and scattered. Thatâ€™s why I avoid stories and speeches and just stick to answering the questions Iâ€™m asked. All the extra words, the overflow, I keep to myself, the words that I silently multiply to get close to the truth.”
“We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.”
“It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.”

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