It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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