She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAt one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Someone 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.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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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.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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 gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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