The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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