It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHistory is not was, it is.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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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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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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