Civilization begins with distillation
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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 don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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