But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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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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