History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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