William Faulkner Quotes
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.
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You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
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No matter who I meet, I won't have any pressure.
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Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
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As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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There is no good in knowing people when you are going right away from them in a short time, and may never meet them again.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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There was all these old ladies and my mother she was one of them, and they were having you know, kind of a meeting, and she had said to them 'Oh I have a daughter, she can sings very well!' So it was very embarrassing for me.
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Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!
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I have gained a lot of perspective from the places I have traveled too and the people I have been fortunate enough to meet.
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If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?
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Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
