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.
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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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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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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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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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