Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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