Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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