I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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