William Faulkner Quotes
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I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
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Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
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If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time.
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Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.
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Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
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This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
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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. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
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Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.
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In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
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A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
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Caddy smelled like trees.
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'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.
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That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.