William Faulkner Quotes
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else – especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help.
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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.