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.
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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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