No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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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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