It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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