You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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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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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