Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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 only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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