I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERClocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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