William Faulkner Quotes
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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To go back means defeat.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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Honestly, my dating life according to the tabloids is very exciting, and the most hilarious thing is that it's nowhere near as exciting as the tabloids have ever made it out to be.
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A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses. (p. 49)
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Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.
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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
