You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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