Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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 work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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