Best William Faulkner Proverbs
- She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know… Almost Tell
- Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. Anywhere
- It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a… Acquire
- In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He… Ashamed
- It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid. Aid
- It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible Inspirational
- Love doesn't die; the men and women do. Die
- The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old… Admire
- Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good. Anything Good
- We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. Claim
- One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray… Believed
- A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. Call
- I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I… Air
- ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to… Along
- A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. Accept
- 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… Agree
- When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came… Book
- And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long… Bones
- Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. Grieving
- The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as… Changes
- He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the… Always Empty
- Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least. Hate
- She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be… All
- Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another? Blood
- Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while. Damned
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