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 FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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