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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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History is not was, it is.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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