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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Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.
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For some people, the principle of the caste system will remain in effect: The reward for the obedient is to be transported after death to some fabulous other world where, according to the old beliefs, good people are rewarded.
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If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
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Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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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.
