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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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