But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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History is not was, it is.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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