I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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