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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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She was the captain of her soul
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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