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William Faulkner Quotes: Our tragedy is a general and universal…

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them improvidence and intemperance and evasion -- not laziness evasion of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
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I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
William Faulkner

Home again, his native land he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . .
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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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Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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