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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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