History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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 love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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