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I learned little save that mo...

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.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

It is easy enough to say that...

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

There is something about jump...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

To me, all human behavior is ...

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

They say love dies between tw...

They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like the ocean: if you’re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph

William Faulkner 414 quotes

The scattered tea goes with t...

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

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Setting an example for your c...

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

I knew that nobody but a luck...

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Marriage is long enough to ha...

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

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Mississippi begins in a lobby...

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Well, Bud," he said, looking ...

Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?

William Faulkner 414 quotes

It is my ambition to be, as a...

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.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

It was like something you hav...

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

It is not proof that I sought...

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Even sound seemed to fail in ...

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

So vast, so limitless in capa...

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Don Quixote — I read that eve...

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

William Faulkner 414 quotes

In Europe, being an artist is...

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

A pair of jaybirds came up fr...

A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Yes sir. You can be more care...

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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