No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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