People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAs long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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