You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYes. 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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