The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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