William Faulkner Quotes
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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No man may make another free.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.
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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It's a story.
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She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
