It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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 work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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