Who gathers the withered rose?
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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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History is not was, it is.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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