I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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