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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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