I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNERUnless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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