William Faulkner Quotes
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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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It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.
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I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
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I am not one of those women who can stand things.
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There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.
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Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness – people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
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Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
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That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.
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They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
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I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.
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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
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History is not was, it is.
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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
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Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
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You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.