William Faulkner Quotes: It always takes a man that never made…

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

("The Sound and the Fury")

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It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
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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.
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And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. The hands were extended, slightly off the horizontal at a faint angle, like a gull tilting into the wind.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.
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