And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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