Wonder. Go on and wonder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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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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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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