A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSuccess is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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