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 FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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