It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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