"Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

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More William Faulkner quotes
"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
"Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why sh...
"Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.