It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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