She was the captain of her soul
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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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 best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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