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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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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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
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I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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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.
