Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTry to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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