William Faulkner Quotes
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Barbara Walters
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
V. S. Naipaul
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
Barry Sheene
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
Frances Farmer
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
Yvonne Strahovski
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Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
Irma S. Rombauer
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. Modesitt
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
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I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.
C. Thomas Howell
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Plato
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There’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.
Pete Wentz
Fall Out Boy
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What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.
Patricia Heaton
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No man can write who is not first a humanitarian.
William Faulkner
