You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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No 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.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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