Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWonder. Go on and wonder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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