Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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