If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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