If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNERClocks 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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