No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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History is not was, it is.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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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 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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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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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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