The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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