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Most Quotes by William Faulkner
- Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
- At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,…
- It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always…
- The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man…
- I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most…
- 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…
- Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
- 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…
- Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
- ...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out…
- ...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster