I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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History is not was, it is.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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 ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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