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Littles Quotes by William Faulkner
- My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
- We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put…
- I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and…
- I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust…
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a…
- We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
- Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if we were…
- I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's…
- She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he…
- Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
- I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,…
- I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he…
- Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come…
- It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a…
- When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came…
- Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
- The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And…
- When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe…
- And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the…
- I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of…
- ...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...
- They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough.…
More Littles Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson