To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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.
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