No one individual can tell the truth.
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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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