William Faulkner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I feel that people who think it's okay to barely eat are wrong. There has to be a good balance of diet, food, and workout for your body to stay in good shape, always!
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.
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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
