William Faulkner Quotes
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
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Yeah, but I have the box set out now.
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If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
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Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures.
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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
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The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.
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I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.
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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
