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 FAULKNERWonder. Go on and wonder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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She was the captain of her soul
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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