I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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