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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
William Faulkner -
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
William Faulkner
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I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
William Faulkner -
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
William Faulkner -
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
William Faulkner -
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
William Faulkner -
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
William Faulkner -
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
William Faulkner
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
William Faulkner -
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
William Faulkner -
It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
William Faulkner -
She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling.
William Faulkner -
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
William Faulkner -
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
William Faulkner
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
William Faulkner -
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
William Faulkner -
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
William Faulkner -
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
William Faulkner -
That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.
William Faulkner -
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
William Faulkner
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Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
William Faulkner -
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
William Faulkner -
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... 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 Faulkner -
That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.
William Faulkner