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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Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.
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I wanna know how many buttons I'm going to get at meet and greets now.
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When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.
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When I was young, I would stay in my backyard and I would create roads and tunnels and systems. My uncle had a sawmill, and we had all sorts of pieces of wood, and we'd create a city. I truly believe that kids enjoy the box better than the car or the toy that's inside. So many times during Christmas, watching a kid, or even myself... There is excitement toward your toy, but then you put the toy on the side and something is created with the package.
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Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
