If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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 writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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