The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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 next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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