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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.

William Faulkner

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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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If 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…
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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For God Hell
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Cream Do Higher Know Shoot You
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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