Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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