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William Faulkner Inspirational Quotes (340)

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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
William Faulkner
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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. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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 own.
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any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
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It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
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The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
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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 trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
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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 the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.
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You don’t love because: you love despite not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away
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And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
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...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 to be when applied to life.
William Faulkner
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