Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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