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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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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 do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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