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 FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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