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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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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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