No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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History is not was, it is.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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