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 FAULKNEROne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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No battle is ever won … 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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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