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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true. (William Faulkner)
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. View quote
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand. View quote
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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. View quote
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you. View quote
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. View quote
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I am not one of those women who can stand things. View quote
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister. View quote
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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. View quote
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My, my. A body does get around. View quote
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If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time. (William Faulkner)
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. View quote
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. View quote
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Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long. View quote
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Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. View quote
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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. View quote
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Did you ever have a sister? did you? View quote
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better. View quote
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The poets are wrong of course. ... But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it. View quote
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Don Quixote - I read that every year, as some do the Bible. View quote
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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love? (William Faulkner)
Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down. View quote
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