Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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History is not was, it is.
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