A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER