The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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’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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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