My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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 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 know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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