We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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