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Words Quotes by William Faulkner
- I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you…
- I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,
- There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
- I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...
- 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,…
- He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word…
- Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
- One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray…
- ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to…
- She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be…
- 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…
- I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily…
- Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot…
- They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as…
- That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he…
- People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
- I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
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- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila