A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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