Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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