William Faulkner Quotes
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
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Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
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Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?
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I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off
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I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
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Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
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Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.
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The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
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Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.
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And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.
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We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.
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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
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Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
