William Faulkner Quotes

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

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• I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Responsibility
  • Show
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• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
  • Reader

• I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Believe
  • Things
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• I don't use emojis. I go vintage.

  

  Rami Malek
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  • Go
  • Vintage

• 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.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Want
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• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
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  • Tell

• I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

  

  Adam Jones
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  • Custom
  • Gibson

• 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.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• Let students use technologies in the classroom.

  

  Weili Dai
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  • Students
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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.

  

  Gail Porter
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• Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
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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.'

  

  Maya Angelou
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• You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Creativity
  • Use
  • Have

• Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Knowledge
  • Belief
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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.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
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  • Media

• 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.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Help
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• The concept of absolute, hence or whence springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought or mind in the field of science. ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")

  

  African Spir
  • Science
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• Whenever I get into a tough situation...I think of growing up, and I say, 'This situation won't be the worst one I've ever been in.

  

  Billy Wagner
  • Situation
  • Growing Up

• I was pretty much a single-father for most of my daughter India's life. Looking back, were there things I could've done better? Yes, but I'm still pretty proud of myself for having raised such an amazing individual. Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

  

  Eric Benet
  • Job
  • Father
  • Proud

• He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

  

  William Faulkner
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