It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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