Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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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.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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