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WILLIAM FAULKNERI could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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