All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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