Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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