To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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