Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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