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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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If 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.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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