Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can 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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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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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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