Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTry to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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 poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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