William Faulkner Quotes
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
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So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.
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I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.
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The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.
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I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
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The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unreality
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I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
