Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
WILLIAM FAULKNERCivilization begins with distillation
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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History is not was, it is.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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