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Day Quotes by William Faulkner
- Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he…
- The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was…
- It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he…
- He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word…
- A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
- 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…
- 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…
- The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
- . . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s…
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