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Own 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…
- My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
- 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…
- It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself…
- ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget…
- Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no…
- Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering,…
- Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my…
- When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would…
- I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
- ...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..
- Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and…
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