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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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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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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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