Faulkner Absalom Absalom Quotes

#1. The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

Bill Moyers

#2. I'm all for sex. Seven nights a week. Days, too.

Steve Allen

#3. Ah, Mr Compson said, Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?

William Faulkner

#4. Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.

Ilona Andrews

#5. Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded ...

Audre Lorde

#6. I'd rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night.

Laura Ruby

#7. A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23

Philip G. Zimbardo

#8. It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

James W. Hall

#9. Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?

Richard Connell

#10. I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.

Rick Chiantaretto

#11. There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it.

Christopher Buckley

#12. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

#13. I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

Stewart Rahr

#14. Then he lets go and walks down the path, without another word. He doesn't look back. But I watch him go. I watch him all the way home.

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