It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Haunted 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.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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