William Faulkner Quotes
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
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When I get to flying open and killing people in the stands, it?s not good. That?s when you know my timing is not right and you can predict I won?t get a hit. That?s when I tell myself to use the whole field. That?s when I?m at my best.
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Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.
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Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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To kill nothing, that is love.
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Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.
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If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
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It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy.
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Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
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You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
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You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
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The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.
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Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!
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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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Ten things you should always do when you form a group 1. Work with your friends 2. Find like-minded people 3. Have ultimate self-belief 4. Write great songs 5. Get a great manager 6. Live in Manchester 7. Support each other through thick and thin 8. Realise no one person is bigger than the group (thanks to Gene Simmons for that one) 9. Watch where the money goes 10. Always get separate legal advice for everything before you sign; failing that, ask your mam and dad.
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We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
