It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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