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William Faulkner Inspirational Quotes (340)

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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner
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It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
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A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] 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 epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...
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Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
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Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
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Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
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You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
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Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
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I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
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ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
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Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.
William Faulkner
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