Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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