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From Quotes by William Faulkner
- They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men…
- I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you…
- I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and…
- It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []…
- An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be…
- That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals…
- A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries,…
- It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and…
- 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…
- All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
- Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
- ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
- He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
- a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble…
- I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,…
- I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and…
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or…
- . . .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…
- I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what…
- Vivian Rutledge: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. I like to see them work out a little first. See if they're front…
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