If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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