Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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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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