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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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