William Faulkner Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?
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Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
