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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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