Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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 never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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