And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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