Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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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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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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