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.
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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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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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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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