William Faulkner Quotes
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
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I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.
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But in action, one defies one's character.
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Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.
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Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world
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It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
