You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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She was the captain of her soul
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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