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 FAULKNERIf we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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