William Faulkner Quotes

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

William Faulkner

• Bad
• Hell
• I Don't Care

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

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• For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

  

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• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

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• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

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• All of us grow.

  

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• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
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• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.

  

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• How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

  

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• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

  

  Bill Gates
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• The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.

  

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• She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...

  

  Arthur Ransome
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• No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.

  

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• It is important to find worth in yourself.

  

  Chyler Leigh
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• I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.

  

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• I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

  

  Chris Evans

• I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

  

  Martin Scorsese
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• I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Bad
  • Hell
  • I Don't Care