I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The 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.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. 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 problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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