William Faulkner Short Quotes

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Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

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…girls, women, are not interested in romance but only facts.

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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

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The reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

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…life is not so much motion as an inventless repetition of motion.

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Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

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Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.

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How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home.

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I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

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Gettysburg.... You can't understand it. You would have to be born there.

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

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Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

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Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

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I've seed de first en de last.... I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.

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… a mule will work for you ten years for the privilege of kicking you once.

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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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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

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