Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTry to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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