Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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