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 FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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