Wonder. Go on and wonder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBut 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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