Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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 man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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