We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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She was the captain of her soul
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