Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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