William Faulkner Quotes

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

William Faulkner

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

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• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  

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• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

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• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

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• It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

  

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• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  

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• If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

  

  Dane Cook
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• Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

  

  Gao Xingjian
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• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

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• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

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• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  

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• If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

  

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• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  

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• Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

  

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• Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

  

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• Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  

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• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  

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• He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

  

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• Here in L.A., people really open their houses in an easy way, nothing too complicated. You can go in your flip-flops.

  

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• I wasn't exactly uncomfortable when I did my first comedy. I was just very aware of the risks; if you do a comedy that sucks, and you suck in it, then you won't get a chance to do it again.

  

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• Every socialistic type of government… produces bad art, produces social inertia, produces really unhappy people, and it's more repressive than any other kind of government.

  

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• Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

  

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• One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

  

  William Faulkner
  • Work
  • Man
  • Saddest