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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

William Faulkner
Pride, Religion, Needs
"The Sound And The Fury".

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

William Faulkner
Pride, Honor, Way
William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

William Faulkner
Pride, Talking, Long
William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

William Faulkner
Book, Pride, Honor
"William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

William Faulkner
Children, Pride, Motherhood
William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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