Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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