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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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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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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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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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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I'm nothing without God.
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Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
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When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product.
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A painter may know what he doesn't want. But woe be to him if he desires to know what he wants. A painter is lost if he finds himself. Max Ernst considers his sole virtue to be that he has managed not to find himself.
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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
