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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Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.
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'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.
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I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
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The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
