Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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History is not was, it is.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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 most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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