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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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