You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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