Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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.
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