William Faulkner Quotes
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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May books spread the world over!
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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I learned life from some good teachers.
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The wise are above books.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.
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I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
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Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
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I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
