Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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