Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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