William Faulkner Quotes
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I don't use emojis. I go vintage.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.
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I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
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I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
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I'm independent. I use my own money. For everything.
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The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.
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I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
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I join all of you who are advocates telling others that they can improve their lives and the quality of their lives and others by taking a few moments, breathing, and allowing one's whole being to become a vessel for positivity.
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Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
