The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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