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William Faulkner Inspirational Quotes (340)

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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 take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
William Faulkner
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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
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We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
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When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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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 and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
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I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
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I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
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Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
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A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.
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This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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You can't. You just have to.
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All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
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Did you ever have a sister? did you?
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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
William Faulkner
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