It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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