And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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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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She was the captain of her soul
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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