Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBut 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.
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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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