Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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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 aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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