Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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