Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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