If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSuccess is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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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