It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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