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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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