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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of 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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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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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.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. 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’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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