Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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