A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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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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