William Faulkner Quotes

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

William Faulkner

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• Hemingway
• Short Way

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• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

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• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

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• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

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• I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

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• I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.

  

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• I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

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• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

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• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  

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• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

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• The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

  

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• I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

  

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• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

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• I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

  

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• I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

  

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• Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

  

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• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

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• I never heard the music he was playing in my life, and I've never seen the dances he was doing in my life. It was definitely nothing of this decade. It was definitely nothing that anybody of this era would know about.

  

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  • Life
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• As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

  

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  • Practice
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  • Dark Earth

• And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

  

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  • Desire
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  • Moment

• Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Man
  • Hemingway
  • Short Way