Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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