People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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History is not was, it is.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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