Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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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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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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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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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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