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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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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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