Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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History is not was, it is.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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