A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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 could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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