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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend 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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