Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice 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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