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 FAULKNERPouring out liquor is like burning books.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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