William Faulkner Quotes
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
