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.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Yes. 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.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Try to be better than yourself.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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She was the captain of her soul
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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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 quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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