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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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