A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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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.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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