History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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 a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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