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Long Quotes by William Faulkner
- Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white…
- When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,…
- Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
- I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust…
- Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
- 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…
- So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...
- Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come…
- …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…
- 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…
- When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe…
- A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair…
- I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of…
- As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will…
- It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along…
- ...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
- Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave…
- Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
- That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating…
- And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
- I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for…
- Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things…
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