Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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History is not was, it is.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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