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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
William Faulkner -
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
William Faulkner
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I listen to the voices.
William Faulkner -
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner -
It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
William Faulkner -
...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
William Faulkner -
The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
William Faulkner -
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner
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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
William Faulkner -
I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
William Faulkner -
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.
William Faulkner -
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner -
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
William Faulkner -
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
William Faulkner
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner -
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
William Faulkner -
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
William Faulkner -
I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
William Faulkner