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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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I 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.
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