There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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