No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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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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