But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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