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 FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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