William Faulkner Quotes
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
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The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.
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Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
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USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
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Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
