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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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