The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERCivilization begins with distillation
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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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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