How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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