The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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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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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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