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Light in August
William Faulkner
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”
“Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]”
“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”
“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”
“a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.”
“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by ten food steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike childtrebling, orphans in identical and uniform blue denim in and out of remembering but in knowing constant in the bleak walls, the bleak windows where in rain soot from the yearly adjacenting chimneys streaked like black tears.”
“He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. [...] 'Perhaps they were right in putting love into books,' he thought quietly. 'Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
“She was the captain of her soul”
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belief, love, honesty, truth, lie, advice, fool, nostalgia, recollection, memory