William Faulkner Quotes
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
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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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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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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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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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Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.
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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.
