Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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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.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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She was the captain of her soul
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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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 we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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