William Faulkner
Quotes
11 November 2014
She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.
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11 November 2014
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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11 November 2014
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly ... is having to accept it.
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11 November 2014
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.
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11 November 2014
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.
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11 November 2014
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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11 November 2014
[A man's] moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
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11 November 2014
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
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11 November 2014
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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11 November 2014
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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