Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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