As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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