Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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