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 FAULKNERShe was the captain of her soul
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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