It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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