Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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