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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

William Faulkner

No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Individual No One Tell Truth
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 FAULKNER

All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anywhere Book Else Live Love Perhaps Put Right
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Capitalist Demand Expect Influence Life Live Long Money People System Under
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
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 FAULKNER

Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beautiful Branch Country Create Describe Different Every Gesture Man People Person Remember Shadow Take Tolstoy Tree
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Long Night Nothing Omisison One Regret Sleppeless Tomorrow Wrest
You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anyhow Beat Dislike Even Trouble Try Uproar Wise Women
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…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Courage Horizon Lose New Shore Sight Swim Until
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
Yes. 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself

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