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 FAULKNERHistory is not was, it is.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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 next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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