If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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