People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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One 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…
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Try to be better than yourself.
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I 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.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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