"The last sound on the worthless earth will……" — William Faulkner
"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."
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342 Quotes by William Faulkner
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- They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white…
- The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
- Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that…
- There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man…
- The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black…
- Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
- My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little…
- Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the…
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
- We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military…