William Faulkner Quotes
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner
Quotes to Explore
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
Jim Webb
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
Peter Abelard
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
Emil Cioran
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I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
James Brown
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Let me break it down for you again,
You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine:
Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.
William H. Gass
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It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall scheme of things, it proves that men can do about anything they want to if they work hard enough at it, and I knew that I could do it . . . and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to.
Scott Carpenter
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Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.
Celia Rivenbark
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
Barbara Kruger
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I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.
Sarah Lacy
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner
