History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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