You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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