You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWonder. Go on and wonder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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