You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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