The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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 don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Clocks 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.
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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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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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