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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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