She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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