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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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One 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…
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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