We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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