No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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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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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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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.
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