I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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