Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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 only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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