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All Quotes by William Faulkner
- If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
- We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put…
- I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone…
- So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you,…
- He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no…
- A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
- The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all…
- All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
- Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if we were…
- 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…
- The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The…
- They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the…
- All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
- It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself…
- This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
- I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
- All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.…
- Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would…
- It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
- So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...
- ...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above…
- ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget…
- I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he…
- A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
- …I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle