Top 9 William Faulkner New Orleans Quotes

#1. The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Benazir Bhutto

#2. Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Napoleon Hill

#4. The book was thick and red. It was almost thicker than it was wide, a thickness that somehow enhanced its bookishness. It was - to me aged 12 - quite clearly more of a book than most, if not all, of the paperbacks untidily stacked on the shelves of my father's study.

Will Self

#5. Everybody talked about Freud when I lived in New Orleans, but I have never read him. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if Melville did either, and I'm sure Moby Dick didn't.
(William Faulkner)

William Faulkner

#6. Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.

Donald Glover

#7. Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Marco Arment

#8. She reached behind her to unfasten her bra, then stopped. "Do you need me to take all my clothes off, or just from the waist down?" "This isn't a visit to the gynecologist, Rachel. Everything must go." His voice was lightly mocking.

Anne Stuart

#9. I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

Elizabeth Berg

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