The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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