A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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