“He thinks I am the man of the past but I am still here. He is the man of the past.”
Remarks on British Prime Minister John Major (28 September 1993), quoted in The Times (29 September 1993), p. 1
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Light (1919), Ch. XV - An Apparition
Context: I think of myself, of all that I am. Myself, my home, my hours; the past, and the future, — it was going to be like the past! And at that moment I feel, weeping within me and dragging itself from some little bygone trifle, a new and tragical sorrow in dying, a hunger to be warm once more in the rain and the cold: to enclose myself in myself in spite of space, to hold myself back, to live.
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
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on touring with Billy Joel
Sixty things for Sir Elton's 60th (2007)
Section 54
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
As quoted in a eulogy for Darrow by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1938)
As quoted in a eulogy for Darrow http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/darrow1.htm by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1938)
An answer to a student's question as to why he writes in long sentences during his Writer-in-Residence time at the University of Virginia in 1957-1958. Faulkner in the University, p. 84
Faulkner in the University (1959)
Attributed to "Jimmy R." in Days of Healing, Days of Joy (1987)
Misattributed
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