The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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