The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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