Civilization begins with distillation
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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