William Faulkner Quotes

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

William Faulkner

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• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Fear
  • Loved
  • Jealousy

• I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Teenager

• My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Loved

• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Movie
  • Loved
  • Really

• I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Jesus

• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Everything
  • Loved

• I loved being in a band.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Band
  • Being
  • Loved

• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Loved

• A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Friends
  • Loved
  • Accept

• I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Know

• I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Loved
  • Shape
  • Structure

• I have always loved animals since I was very young.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Animals

• I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Literature
  • Pride
  • Books

• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • World
  • Hero
  • Loved

• I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Loved
  • Would
  • Buster

• I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Loved

• I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Great
  • King
  • Loved

• As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

  

  George R. Stewart
  • Long
  • War
  • Reason

• We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Problem

• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Feel
  • Same
  • Lonely

• The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I'm nervous, and then when I get into it, it's just like I feel like I'm the person who sang the song first.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Music
  • Song
  • Start

• She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Loved
  • Spite
  • Incapable