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 FAULKNERA 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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She was the captain of her soul
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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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 books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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