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Them 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 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. []…
- This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
- Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a…
- Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that…
- The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try…
- Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the…
- She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be…
- Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.…
- People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
- I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to…
- Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.…
- It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and…
- 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…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster