Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The 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.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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