A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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