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Books Quotes by William Faulkner
- It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []…
- It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
- The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do…
- I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's…
- Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
- Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
- 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…
- Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
- It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and…
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