All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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