William Faulkner Quotes
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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God's gift of forgiveness and eternal life in heaven is absolutely free!
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If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.
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...Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall-poets have no choice about this-but he waits writing; and this-other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible-is the best way for a poet to wait.
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The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us.
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Nice to meet you, where you been?I could show you incredible things.Magic, madness, heaven, sin.Saw you there and I thought.Oh my God, look at that face.You look like my next mistake.Love's a game, wanna play?.
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One must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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And in the morning when the sun rise.Look in the water, see the blue sky.As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.
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Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood.
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We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
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True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.
