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Quotes About Creation

Pues cuando Él quiere que una cosa se mueva, bien que la hace alargada, sean caminos o caballos o carros; pero cuando Él quiere que una cosa se esté quieta, la hace para arriba, como los árboles y los hombres.
~ William Faulkner
When [God] aims for something to be always a-moving, He makes it longways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. . . . [I]f He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would. Anse in As I Lay Dying, pp. 34-5
~ William Faulkner
It wasn't we who invented war,' the group commander said. 'It was war which created us. From the loins of man's furious ineradicable greed sprang the captains and the colonels to his necessity. We are his responsibility; he shall not shirk it.
~ William Faulkner
é preciso duas pessoas para fazer alguém, e uma para morrer. é assim que o mundo vai acabar.
~ William Faulkner
But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.
~ William Faulkner
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as rank presumption.
~ William Gaddis
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as 'rank presumption.
~ William Gaddis
Thank God there was the gold to forge!
~ William Gaddis
every work of art is a work of perfect necessity.
~ William Gaddis
But I suppose that is the way of an artiste, no? You needed this world built for you, this beach, this place. To die.
~ William Gibson
True that you've got your own whole other body, up there?" "More or less. Somebody built it, but you couldn't tell." "True that you've got your own whole other body, up there?" "More or less. Somebody built it, but you couldn't tell." "Look like you?" "No," Flynne said, "prettier and tittier." "Go on," Clovis said, pull the other one.
~ William Gibson
If God made anything better, he kept it for himself.
~ William Gibson
With his hands in the pockets of his jacket, he stared through the glass at a flat lozenge of vatgrown flesh that lay on a carved pedestal of imitation jade.
~ William Gibson
ancient television and withdrew a silver-black vacuum tube. "See this? Part of my DNA, sort of. . . ." He tossed the thing into the shadows and Case heard it pop and tinkle. "You're always building models. Stone circles. Cathedrals. Pipe-organs. Adding machines.
~ William Gibson
modelos de información: las señales que un particular creaba inadvertidamente en la red mientras observaba los asuntos mundanos y aun así indefinidamente múltiples de una sociedad digital
~ William Gibson
I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.
~ William Golding
Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life.
~ William Golding
man produces evil as a bee produces honey
~ William Golding
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.
~ William Goldman
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
~ William Inge
to declare that all those things must have been the work not of men but of angels.16
~ William J. Bennett
Perhaps the most that can be said is that HCM had become a prisoner of his own creation, a fly in amber, unable in his state of declining influence to escape the inexorable logic of a system that sacrificed the fate of individuals to the higher morality of the master plan.
~ William J. Duiker
Belief creates the actual fact.
~ William James
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
~ William James