Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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 mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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 don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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