William Faulkner Quotes
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
Quotes to Explore
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
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I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
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You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
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I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
