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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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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.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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You 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.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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