It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYes. 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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